COD4 beta listing clarified, coming "soon"

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COD4 beta listing clarified, coming "soon"

Posted Aug 17th 2007 6:00PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News

A listing on the Xbox Live Marketplace ticker for the Call of Duty 4 multiplayer beta set the internetz on fire earlier today. The listing, you see, has the date "8/17" tattooed onto it very clearly. The folks at 2old2play caught up with a representative from Activision to get the whole mess cleared up. The rep stated that while there is no official release date at this time, the beta will be happening "soon" and that we should expect "more information shortly."

We'd like to point out that the content on the ticker generally seems to correspond with the day it actually hits Marketplace, so we're wondering just how "soon" the beta really is. After all, we know it's being played right now. All we're really waiting for at this point is for Activision and Infinity Ward to start handing out beta codes to participants. For those of you eagerly waiting for more, you'd best keep your browser pointed at CharlieOscarDelta.com.

[Thanks, Derrick Schommer]

Tags: activision, callofduty, callofduty4, callofduty4modernwarfare, cod4, infinityward

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21. I have to say that this waiting is a bit ..........MUCH! I want in on this Beta sooooooooooo BAD, I can't wait anymore!!!

Posted at 8:36PM on Aug 17th 2007 by Mr BoomStick XL

22. the site is down for maintenance

Posted at 10:31PM on Aug 17th 2007 by mike

23. well, it says "later today" so i am waiting until midnight.

Posted at 10:32PM on Aug 17th 2007 by bigmac375

24. all right, let's clear this all up. There will be no beta tonight, or even tomaorrow, OK, and that whole marketplace thing was confirmed a whole screw up. So don't even worry about getting in the beta or not. They will giving out plenty of notice way before the beta is available, and they're going to have plenty of room for eeveryone to play the beta. So that's it. No worries

Posted at 11:52PM on Aug 17th 2007 by JCarlos

25. I do find it odd that their website is down, probably due to the site being hammered...

maybe it is up, and people and thousands of people are trying to access the site thus killing it?

Posted at 12:03AM on Aug 18th 2007 by wako

26. regardless or not of how many spaces are available, I want to secure mine tonight!

Posted at 12:06AM on Aug 18th 2007 by Magic Whiskey

27. i am one of those thousands killing it :)

F5...F5...F5...F5...sets keystroke to F5 every 3 seconds...F5...F5...F5...

Posted at 12:06AM on Aug 18th 2007 by bigmac375

28. same bigmac :)

farthest I got was to ~/ageconfirm.php :D

Posted at 12:10AM on Aug 18th 2007 by wako

29. i got this about 20 mins ago:

Mail Failed

An error has occured and an email has been sent to the IT department.
mysql
Lost connection to MySQL server during query
SELECT * FROM blogs WHERE ID != '0' AND blog_status = '1' AND LACEReport = '0' ORDER BY blog_start DESC LIMIT 7

Date: 12-31-1969

Posted at 12:25AM on Aug 18th 2007 by SubNoiZe@T3F

30. Im getting this now when I goto the homepage...

it redirects me to http://www.charlieoscardelta.com/indexnew.php

and the page says "Too many connections."

Damnit...

Posted at 12:33AM on Aug 18th 2007 by wako

31. The site works for me now and... no beta. No updates. Wtf...

Posted at 12:59AM on Aug 18th 2007 by zackiyp

32. *single tear*

...nothing happened?

Why? Why, you sick, sick people?

Posted at 1:10AM on Aug 18th 2007 by Zoot Suit Jedi

33. Did you not read my comments? They are getting things READY for the beta, not releasing it. They clearly stated on the web site weeks ago that there will be PLENTY of notice of when the beta signups will be. So you will know well in advance when you need to hammer the server.

Posted at 4:05AM on Aug 18th 2007 by LumpStatus

34. they probably just moved servers to thousands of locations all over the North America just for them all to catch fire.

Posted at 10:09AM on Aug 18th 2007 by bigmac375

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